• Elon Musk purchased shares of Twitter after unsuccessfully petitioning the CEO to remove a Twitter account tracking his private jet.
  • Musk’s personal gripes played a key role in his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter.
  • Musk banned the account after promising not to, highlighting his prioritization of getting his way over free speech.

Archive link: https://archive.ph/ttBv9

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What stopping someone from recreating this on mastodon or any other website?

There is nothing special about Twitter which allowed people to track this jet.

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https://grndcntrl.net/links/

They have links to all of the various social media sites for all the celebrities they track.

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The guy running it did just that.

Musk’s actions are hilarious and pathetic. Anti censorship hero censored… Public data.

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I think it’s really about visibility. If you don’t have the same visibility as twitter, you can have this wherever, it doesn’t matter.

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So… it was a really good call from the CEO to not remove the account?

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Assuming this is true, there are methods to have the same result that are way less expensive…

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Yes. By giving the jet tracking account $50,000 that the kid asked for.

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How much even is that to someone like musk?

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Probably around 1 cent or less.

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So the full story would be that Elon stayed up until 5:30 a.m playing Elden Ring in a Vancouver hotel - was very stressed, saw on Twitter that people knew he was raging in Vancouver based on the Jet Tracker - stressing him out even more -
Though “Fuck it, maybe I can’t beat Malenia, but at least I can beat this asshat on Twitter tracking me!”

…If only FromSoftware had added some pay-to-win elements… Like “For A Small $1 billion Micro-Transaction you get the uber Malenia slayer sword!” -
We would be living in a totally different timeline

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